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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.algonet.se!newsfeed.tip.net!vampire.xinit.se!fizban.solace.mh.se!news.ifm.liu.se!hog.rydnet.lysator.liu.se!wingel From: wingel@hog.rydnet.lysator.liu.se (Christer Weinigel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD Date: 17 Sep 1995 07:10:42 GMT Organization: Rydnet, University of Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <43ghli$4d9@newsy.ifm.liu.se> References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <41ogs7$jui@park.uvsc.edu> <1995Sep7.221221.28091@state.systems.sa.gov.au> <43bari$keb@covina.lightside.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hog.rydnet.lysator.liu.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I really shoudn't get involved in this thread, but I'm waiting for the latest Linux kernel to compile (a pre 1.3.28 patch), and I'm bored. :-) [snip] >3) When I switched from a.out to ELF under Linux, it WASN'T as stable as >everyone had promised. A couple of programs, including 'xbench' and >simple utilities like "fromdos" and "todos" caused segmentation faults no >matter what I did! [snip] I just thought I'd mention this might be a problem with 'fromdos' and 'todos', not ELF. a.out has a 'feature' which allows a.out-programs to access NULL pointers without causing segmentation faults, ELF is much more paranoid about things like this, so some bugs which have gone undetected with a.out executables are being fixed because of ELF. I might be totally off the mark this time though :-) BTW. Right now I'm running Linux, but I'm not religious about it. I'd like to try FreeBSD or NetBSD, but I still haven't been able to figure out if there is any support my hardware (specifically, the Trantor T128 SCSI-adapter). Is there a 'Hardware compatibility list' available for FreeBSD somewhere.